Editorial Policy

Our purpose

Helping international patients understand dental tourism in Türkiye before they make important decisions. We publish non-clinical consumer education: how the industry works, how to read quotations and terms, how to research clinics, and how to plan travel and follow-up.

What we publish, and what we don't

• We do explain processes, commercial practices, questions worth asking and warning signs.
• We don't diagnose conditions, recommend treatments or give individual medical, dental or legal advice.
• We don't claim any clinic is approved, verified, certified or recommended unless we can substantiate the specific claim and explain how it was verified.
• We don't invent statistics, reviews, testimonials, credentials or case studies.

How we separate fact from guidance

Our guides contain two kinds of content, and we try to make the difference clear:

• Verifiable facts, such as regulations, official procedures or published data, which we cite to primary sources: official government bodies, regulators and professional organisations, and official platform documentation.
• Editorial guidance, meaning our practical advice and observations based on the team's industry experience, which we present as guidance, not as fact.

Where a guide touches on regulatory or legal matters, we only publish once claims have been checked against primary sources. Until then the guide stays in draft.

Review status

Every guide shows its review status. "Editorial guidance. Not medically reviewed" means exactly that. Any guide involving clinical facts must be reviewed by an appropriately qualified, licensed professional before publication, and we name the reviewer when that happens.

Independence

We take no referral fees, commissions, sponsorship or advertising, and no clinic can pay to shape what we publish. Our team's separate professional work means we know some clinics, and some are, or have been, clients of that work. Those relationships never shape our guides, and they are disclosed on How We Make Money and our Commercial Disclosure page, and to you directly before any optional clinic assistance.

Naming clinics

In our published content, we write about practices, not about individual clinics. If we ever describe a specific business, positively or negatively, we will do so only on the basis of verifiable evidence and give it the opportunity to respond.

Our editorial review process

1. Brief: each guide starts from a real patient question and a defined search intent.
2. Draft: written as non-clinical guidance, drawing on the team's industry experience.
3. Fact check: every regulatory, legal or factual claim is checked against a primary source, or removed. Unverified items stay marked and the guide stays unpublished.
4. Clinical review (when needed): anything touching clinical facts is reviewed by an appropriately qualified, licensed professional before publication, and the reviewer is named on the page.
5. Approval & publication: the guide is published with its date and an honest review status.
6. Maintenance: guides are reviewed periodically and corrected openly. See our Corrections Policy.

Experience, expertise and clinical review: the difference

• Editorial experience: our team's background in healthcare finance, clinic operations, medicine and dentistry shapes which questions we ask and how we explain the industry.
• Medical and dental expertise: exists within our team, but general guides are not individual clinical advice.
• Professional clinical review: a specific, documented review of a guide by a named, licensed professional. Only guides that show a named reviewer have had one.

Updates and corrections

We review our guides regularly and show the date each was last updated. If you believe something we have published is inaccurate, please contact us. We will review it promptly and correct clear errors, noting significant corrections on the page.

Translations

Language versions other than English are translated with AI assistance and are being reviewed by native speakers. Where a translation and the English original differ, the English version is authoritative.

Use of AI tools

We may use software tools, including AI, to assist with research organisation, drafting and editing. Every published guide is reviewed, edited and approved by our team, and responsibility for accuracy rests with us.